Purpose

The purpose of this page is to demonstrate that m68k meets the archive criteria.

Note that information has to be on the page directly, and verifiable. -- ajt@d.o I fail to see the point of replying to the same questions twice, which is why I replied with a 'See the m68kEtchReleaseRecertification page' to those questions which are answered there. But since you insist, I copied it from there; those answers are still valid, after all -- wouter@d.o

Is full source available?

Source of the whole port is available. All of the packages use the same sources as the official Debian ports. In fact, it was an official architecture for Sarge.

Is this architecture related to other architectures already in the archive, or that also should be considered, either now or in the future? Can the related architectures be supported in a single architecture (eg, with a biarch arrangement)?

Currently there is no related architecture already in Debian, but we are looking into adding support for coldfire. As the coldfire's with MMU units are close to classic m68k, it may be possible to build the archive in a way that binaries will be usable across both architectures. If it turns out not to be possible, or then coldfire will need to be a different architecture.

Are there 3 or more developers (or n-ms) actively maintaining the port? Who are they?

The m68k processor was heavily used in early macintosh models, NeXT boxs, Amiga and Atari computers. Although most of these machines are now obsolete, the m68k has seen some use in the embedded market, especially with the coldfire family of processor

Does it have any users? If a desktop system, are there Debian admins who run Debian systems on the arch? If an embedded system are there real systems shipping that a Debian port will be useful for? If a mainframe system are there real systems with many users that a Debian port will be useful for? Who are they?